The executive order banning travel to the U.S. from seven nations had an immediate impact on the Middlebury Institute of International Studies’ extended campus community of students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Middlebury Institute alumna Lena Robinson shares how lessons learned abroad fueled a career focused on improving access to capital and increasing investments for lower income communities and households in California.

How is it that “one of the most important countries in the world is being viewed through the prism of our emotional attitude to one person, Vladimir Putin?” asks Middlebury Institute professor Anna Vassilieva in a wide-ranging interview.